Construction of electric singlephase motors



April 20, 1937. Q zo z 2,078,114

CONSTRUCTION OF ELECTRIC SINGLE-PHASE MOTORS Filed Nov. 30, 1932 Patented Apr. 20, 1937 PATENT OFFICE CONSTRUCTION OI ELECTRIC SINGLE- PHASE MOTORS Carlo Zuni. New York. N. Y.

Application November 30, 1982, Serial No. 645,031. In any November 30, 1931 2 Claims. (Cl- 172-233) This invention has as its aim the construction oi an electric motor which, though singlephase, has such characteristics that it may be compared to triphase induction motors on account the 5 ease with which it starts, the absorption oi current at starting and above all on account of its 7 simplicity. I

The present type oi motor can be used not only in domestic applications, but inall auto- 10 matic installations and particularly in cases where it is impossible to give the installation the care and attention needed.

Monophase motors known at the present time may be divided into the following wide groups:

(1) Commutator motors (repulsion motors or motors derived from the brushes).

(2) Splitphase induction motors (having an auxiliary tie-phased circuit which is inserted during the starting or always inserted).

an (3) Mixed types: respulsion-induction.

The first group 01 motors are especially used in small machines and where it is required to have an intermittent working with powerful torque, the type noted under N0. 3, are more a! greatly used where an orderly and exact working is required without an excessive starting current. Both types have a commutator and brushes. In the No. 3 type, there are also devices which, after starting is accomplished, the circuits are closed 80 and the brushes lifted so that the motor functions by induction.

The present invention overcomes these difllculties by providing a motor with condenser winding always inserted, whereby dc-phasing is accomplished at the moment of starting with a considerable angle between the currents of the direct circuit and the currents of the condenser circuit and at the same time keeping during operation, a working function having a considerable angle and re-phasing function.

Fig. 1 represents a diagrammatic view illustrating the windings oi the stator of a single phase four pole motor, and,

Fig. 2 represents a portion of diagrammatic view illustrating the windings of the stator of a single phase four pole motor with some of the slots having coils of both circuits in the same.

In the drawing, L and L indicate the line circuit. The heavy lines, represented through i-23; ib-ll-IZ; lS-Ili-Il and 28-29-30, indicate the windings connected directly to the line, while the dotted lines, 45-6--'|8-9; iI-lL-IB-li-iI-lfl; 22-23-24-25-46-21 and Il-II-fl-JHl-Jl indicate the windings connected through the capacity 1:. The

heavy lines constitute one-third oi the total windlugs and the dotted lines constitute two-thirds of the total windings.

The supply wire L' is connected directly by conductor it to conductor 40 where the current divides, part ilowing in succession to coils l-Ii-2li-i!2l-l2 and thence back by conductor ii to conductor 42 which is connected to supply wire L, the other portion of the current flowing from supply L to conductors 38 and ill through coils i9-l0-2--i i-33ll and by conductor 43 to conductor 42 and thence to supply wire L.

The coils in the capacity circuit, being in series, the current flows through supply wire L' to coils 26-45-2'|--ill-25i623-i48-l5-4 --I 3-5-32-1-34-9-36-8-l 1-24-43 -i. 22 ---II to conductor 38 through K and thence to supply wire L, while current flows through supply wire L to conductor 42, through capacity K, conductor 38 to coils 3l--22-3324i1-8-26- HHI-H-J-IS-i-IS-S-H-lb-lB-JI --ll-I13526 to conductor 31, thence to supply wire L.

The respective action of the two circuits has here been presented and the aim set has been reached by enlarging the circuit of the condensers up to the point where such circuit itseli. occupies two-thirds of the statoric ring leaving the other third to the direct connected circuit, thereby properly allotting the capacity.

Up to today the auxiliary circuit has always occupied a small portion of the statoric rin usually a third, while the principal circuit occupied the other two thirds; for example, it till stator carried 36 slots uniformly distributed am of equal size, 24 would be allotted to the dlreci circuit and I! to the auxiliary circuit, and thi: in the condenser type as well as in the reslstanci type.

Instead, in the present invention, it is to b noted that the directly connected circuit. coil equal one-third of the total windings and are ar ranged equidistantly around the stator, while th capacity or condenser circuit constitutes two thirds of the total windings and are propor tionably equidistanced around the stator and th coils of the directly connected circuit. As illus trated in the drawing, the directly connected cir cuit coils are equally spaced in groups of thre between which are equally proportioned in group of six, the coils of the capacity or condenser cir cuit. Under this arrangement I have constructe a singlephase motor comparing in size to that c one-third horse power yet having an efllciency c 

